I was dismayed last week to hear about a group of students organizing to confront President Tilghman and demand that the University cut off funding to the Tory.
Question: Is it ethical for faculty to write columns about ethical questions?Like a number of faculty members, I have been asked by editors of this newspaper to contribute to a fortnightly feature in which members of the faculty and University community respond to ethical problems and quandaries.
University does not plan to reroute Washington RoadContrary to what was reported in Thursday's The Daily Princetonian, the University has no plans to reroute Washington Road, nor is it cooperating with the Borough on a plan to reroute Washington Road traffic from Route 1.
(The following was written by the Varsity Student-Athlete Advisory Committee as an open letter to the University community)Late last spring the Ivy League Presidents voted unanimously to institute a seven-week moratorium on varsity athletics participation.
As a Princeton student and as a Romanian, I would like to share with you some of my thoughts about today's NATO enlargement.
"Men and women can never be friends because the sex part always gets in the way."Nearly fifteen years ago, Harry met Sally.
Maybe it's just me, but there's something about large, angry crowds chanting "Death to the Jews!" which makes me uncomfortable.
By the time I got on the train to Boston on Friday I had received 27 "Gotcha!" emails adjusting my trivial misquotation of Dorothy Parker.
The American Whig-Cliosophic Society is Princeton's oldest student organization and the oldest political, literary and debating society in the world.
As Democrats struggle to emerge from the debacle of the midterm elections, a consensus has emerged within the power structure of this country for the Republican agenda.
I've know Rummy for several decades, ever since he walked into my campaign office and volunteered when I was running for the U.S.
Campus debate on intellectualism reflects national, cultural trendsI read with interest Patrick Deneen's call for the faculty to contribute more to the university's level of intellectual discourse.While I agree that more faculty involvement on campus might alleviate some of the intellectual flatness of undergraduate life, I think he neglects to point out a broader pattern in academia.
In the interest of our discussion on the state of intellectualism at Princeton, it is useful, perhaps, to look at historical precedents.
In modern America where one in two black children are born into poverty and single moms and divorcees abound, it could be argued that a loving, stable homosexual couple adopting children isn't the worst thing that could happen.
Quote based on mistake in The New York TimesMy column of Nov. 18 discussed a remark made recently by Karl Rove that he was more concerned about the 3,000 American dead of Sept.
It happens at least once a week, sometimes more. I'll be sitting with a group of people, maybe for a precept or at dinner, and someone will crack a joke about the Republican Party.
On the night of the midterm elections, the pundits were buzzing with bold new predictions about the consequences of the Republican "landslide." Every voice seemed in agreement that the Republicans had really won a lasting victory, and most were equally convinced that the Democrats had suffered a lasting defeat.
Karl Rove, mastermind of the sweeping Republican victory in the recent election, came up with an interesting bit of math at a lecture in Utah earlier this month.
The conflict in the Middle East between Israelis and Palestinians is a lively topic on campus. At least once a week, the relevant campus student groups host lectures and events to raise awareness of the issues and encourage student involvement.
Toilet seats and intellectualismI told my hall mates a few weeks ago that I was so happy to be at Princeton that I actually didn't mind sitting in whatever my fellow Princetonians decided to leave on the toilet seat in our various campus bathrooms.
